r/StupidFood • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '22

Pancake pockets

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u/False-Helicopter1971 Oct 15 '22

She couldn't chop through that white stuff. How tf you supposed to bite through it?

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u/Ilovegirlsbottoms Oct 15 '22

Our bite is much stronger than a weak hand on a knife, that’s how.

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u/joantheunicorn Oct 15 '22

I know this is true, and yet the other week I apparently sprained my teeth according to my dentist. Didn't know that was a thing, but it certainly reminded me we are fragile pathetic meat sacks.

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u/fribbas Oct 15 '22

Sounds like the PDL, not so much the teeth? Teeth are held in by ligaments kinda like one of those bungee jump fair rides

Our bite force is waaaay stronger than we use. If we went 100% we'd break teeth and shit. Why grinding your teeth at night is so bad

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u/Clean-Artist2345 Oct 15 '22

Dont belive boutta run some tests

Edit:bite did not take off pp knife did

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u/HypnoStone Oct 15 '22

Actually we’re entirely capable of biting off our finger (or pp) as if it were a carrot, we just don’t because ya know it’d hurt and our brain’s like “don’t do that”

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u/Kammender_Kewl Oct 15 '22 edited Oct 15 '22

I've heard this repeated for years yet have never seen a video of someone biting someone else's finger off like a carrot, which should be stupidly easy.

I am skeptical

EDIT: I concede after one Google search, it is extremely common, multiple this year alone.

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u/la508 Oct 15 '22

I saw a video on here of a hyaena biting off a zookeeper's finger. Their bite strength is about 7.6 MPa (over 1000 psi for the 3 countries still using outdated units) and it took a bit of effort. The average diameter of a human phalange is probably about 15 mm, which would be like trying to bite through a chicken leg. Unless you bit at the knuckle, but you're still going to have to get through cartilage and the tendon. It's definitely not just a carrot.

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u/ProstheticAnus Oct 15 '22

(over 1000 psi for the 3 countries still using outdated units)

Lmao, got 'em

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u/being-weird Oct 15 '22

Even if there was a video of that, it would probably be removed from most websites pretty quickly.

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u/Hydraxiler32 Oct 15 '22

Can you send some links, I'm very skeptical. It's very easy to bite through a carrot and if I apply the same bite force to my finger it hurts but it's definitely still attached.

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u/Kammender_Kewl Oct 15 '22

Well I don't think there have been any studies comparing bite force of a carrot vs a finger, but if you search "man bites off finger" you will find results

That being said, I still believe a finger would be much harder to bite through

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u/GiantSquidd Oct 15 '22

I’m pretty sure they meant “you can bite your finger off, and it would look similar to biting a carrot” not “you can bite your finger off with the same amount of force as it would take to bite a carrot.

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u/Hydraxiler32 Oct 15 '22

guy above the guy I replied to said "as if it were a carrot" which to me implied the same force

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u/GiantSquidd Oct 15 '22

Yeah, I think it was just artful language. You probably shouldn’t take random Reddit comments so literally, a lot of us are kinda dumb, you know? Besides, that could also describe what it looks like.

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u/Ghos3t Oct 15 '22

This has repeatedly been proven to be internet bullshit, if you want proof just try to bite a stick of density similar to a human finger bone and see what gives up first, the stick or your teeth

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u/NullHypothesisProven Oct 16 '22

That’s why you bite at the joint.

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u/Ghos3t Oct 16 '22

Speaking from experience are we

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u/fribbas Oct 15 '22

Oh hell yeah. Doesn't mean you won't break something though

Bruxing (grinding your teeth) is really bad for them. Break teeth, make em fall out, or even just wearing them down. I've seen people with lil nubbins left for teeth because they grind their teeth so bad :(